MOPED ARMY

$2,000 for a slow 20mph version PA moped ha ha ha ha ha that’s $100 a mph!

Your old and a newbie so you may not understand that no one is gonna pay $ 2,000 for a slow PA 1 even if it is nice.

You won’t get nowhere near that price if it was the faster 30 mph version PA II either. To convert it to a PA II is not easy! You need to swap engine from a PA II or redo the whole thing, Wow that’s a lot of work!

https://www.mopedarmy.com/wiki/Honda_PA_Model_Differences

As it sits it’s $500-600 bike. You may get more money if the person didn’t know it’s the slow version because not as many PA 1’s that are are Yellow, most times they are red or red white.

If converted to PA II it would be worth more money but now where near $2,000

I just checked and the factory VIN boasts a PA-11 designation. Your sarcastic rebuke was not only wrong but damaging to My pricing. You need to eat big slice of humble pie

While I don’t agree with your pricing, I also don’t care for know-it-alls. Good luck with your sale!

Yeah the dude was wrong about it being a pa50i, but your pricing is asinine. I sold an identical bike in similar condition for $600 only two months ago. And that one had brand new tires and an upgraded exhaust...

Yo my guys. Seriously. I hope he does sell his clean moped.

Like P.T said there is a sucker born every minute and a fool and his money will part ways.

If you are not buying it or negotiating a price you should leave his post alone.

You are the type of guys who would buy a moped from a old person for $50 and try to sell it to someone else for $500 or have a part that someone else needs and sell it for $50 that you got for free.

Times are changing cost of things are changing it’s called inflation.

I have had legit offers of $1500 for mine while riding around San Jose 2 years ago.

Our mopeds are starting to become a little harder to find and they are 40 plus years old. So they are becoming a novelty. Also the average joe knows the Honda brand.

Side note:

The new cheap transportation now is ebikes and electric scooters. So be happy if the price goes up.

That's true, but Moped Army is a community, and we look out for one another. Part of that is calling out bad actors who want exorbitant prices for their thoroughly common bikes.

Incorrect.

Incorrect. I only sell mopeds and parts at cost, at most. I'm more likely to just give things away.

Greed never changes.

If you think that's why we call out people who try to jack up prices you just don't understand the moped community. Consider for a moment that some people prioritize people over profits. Selling a stock common bike for $2k is just going to keep cool people out of our hobby. If that becomes the norm, it'll just be yet another hobby dominated by boring old rich white dudes. Fuck that.

There's ebay and facebook for that sort of nonsense.

Why don't I believe you?

Sorry to tread jack...this will be my last post in it.

Yo B.F....... the air must be real thin high up on that soapbox.....

I think you should practice what you preach....

“That's true, but Moped Army is a community, and we look out for one another. Part of that is calling out bad actors”

I have been on this forum for over 4years and to be honest, I don’t see a lot of helpful people... but have read some helpful old posts from about 10 years ago.

I see more people just voicing their opinion.

“Consider for a moment that some people prioritize people over profits.”

Not to sound like how old I am.... but, it’s called capitalism look at the medical industry...

“Selling a stock common bike for $2k is just going to keep cool people out of our hobby. If that becomes the norm, it'll just be yet another hobby dominated by boring old rich white dudes. Fuck that”

Also, your mind set is all wrong.... The price is not going to keep cool people out of the hobby.... matter fact it will bring more enthusiastic people who will have more passion for it and will weed out the pessimistic people who fell into the hobby by accident.

I have seen this circle before with Vw’s and harleys.

You can't even stop blowing up kits. There are hundreds of posts on tuning and kit installation. There are dozens of posts about the hobbit DR kit. There are hundreds of people (myself included) who've learned almost everything about mopeds through MA. You either need to learn how to use the search functionality or how to read

The medical industry is an evolving and growing industry. Mopeds were literally thrown in the trash by the thousands in the 80s and 90s. We still sometimes find some Hero-Majestics in garbage piles. You don't have the context for why people are saying this because you've never been to a rally, or maybe even a group ride? You don't get that there's something worth keeping intact and not molesting for the sole purpose of quick, insignificant levels of profit.

Stop speaking with authority on the moped community when you don't know anyone in the community or the culture itself. The people riding and fixing mopeds are not the same as people riding Harleys (I worked in a Harley shop for 4 years, Harley riders generally fucking suck) and fixing old VW's. Those things require a good chunk of money. Mopeds don't, which allows for a diverse group of people since the barrier of entry is so low. The Harley and VW communities are a mostly homogeneous, boring ass blob.

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Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. (edited)

I sold this running, titled PA50ii with a proma and new tires for $550 earlier this year. It's not like it sold right away either, it took me a week or two to sell it.

It's on Facebook because the seller wants someone to pay a high price for it. This is as it should be.

So this is what I want everyone to do as a mental exercise I want you to imagine that you're a dad who you have a 14-year-old boy that suddenly gotten interested in motors and has somehow been watching YouTube on mopeds so he says to his father how old do you think his father is he's like in his thirties so he doesn't know anything about mopeds whatsoever except that he heard something on Good morning America or something. So that's going to start looking on Moped Army and they go to church on Sunday morning or synagogue or something that's a nice guy he wants to help his son find you know a way in an increasingly electronic world and he's like happy that his son is wants to go out the front door. But then dad looks at Moped Army and all these people swearing at each other and all of this recovery type of stuff that's thrown all over a simple buy and sell yeah I guess I instigated this whole thing I I admit it I've been wanting to talk about these subjects for a while because I think that we are definitely chasing a bunch of people off of mopeds.